OK, OK, OK, RU OK? Some fantastic news to share with you today! Upset The Rhythm will be releasing Shake Chain’s debut album ‘Snake Chain’ in November. Demolishing audiences and expectations alike, Shake Chain are a London quartet who’ve set their compass to unruly, lyric-bespattered headbangs of radiant abandon. There’s a nervy propulsion of bass lines at play, twitchy guitars that jolt and tack-sharp drums, all overridden by screeching vocal slurs and sampled television. Raven Sings The Blues just premiered the group’s first single from the album (‘RU’ out on all digital platforms today) describing vocalist Kate Mahony as “working the atonal tension like few in her field, thrumming the nerve of the universe like Yoko Ono covering X-Ray Spex.”
Shake Chain’s songs are populated with cowboys, cherry-pickers, content-addicts, private investments, a careless driver called Mike, architects and by much lamentation at the state of our confusing existence. The band are truly cathartic and absurd, humorous and deadly serious, yet always inspired. It’s this tightrope walk which makes their album ‘Snake Chain’ such a dauntingly brilliant listen. ‘Snake Chain’ will be released on November 18th by Upset The Rhythm, a limited 180g red/clear splatter vinyl version is available to pre-order now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
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